Glen Reen Continues Mod Tour Education With Top-15 Finish at Stafford

Youngster is Living a Dream By Racing on the Tour at His Home Track

 

CONCORD, NC (April 29, 2008) – This past weekend marked race number two of Glen Reen’s NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour career.  He started out by successfully qualifying and finishing the season-opening Icebreaker at Thompson International Speedway (CT), and this time around he wanted to finish a little bit stronger in the Spring Sizzler at his home track of Stafford Motor Speedway (CT).

Reen did exactly that, by finishing in the 13^th position.

Just being on track in a Modified Tour race at Stafford, where Reen raced an SK Light Modified in 2007, was a big deal for the young driver.  Skipping a stop in the SK Modified ranks at Stafford, usually a natural progression to the Tour, was a little bit unusual, but Reen couldn’t wait to tackle the Tour.

“It was a dream come true.  I wanted to run a Tour car since I was a little kid,” said Reen.  “So to run a Tour car here at the home track was a just awesome.   To finish the 200 laps was our goal.  But to finish thirteenth was even better.

“We are trying to move up, and to go to the SKs for a year is not going to get you anywhere.   It only gives you more seat time.  So there is no point in staying there.   We had an opportunity to go, so there was no point in not going.  Especially how things are turning out, I am not disappointed that we went this way.”

A top finish wasn’t the main objective of the day.  Learning more about the more powerful Tour Modifieds was.  To play it safe, Reen selected to start at the back of the pack during every restart.

“We were just kind of hanging out.  We did not know what was kind of going on.  This was my first race [in a Tour Modified at Stafford].  I didn’t want to get involved with the veterans and hit anyone.  So I just kind of stayed clean and stayed back.”

Close to the race end, Reen found himself running in the middle of the pack by virtue of staying out of trouble.  

“When I realized where we were, I just went for it at the end.  Then when we realized we were safe and no one was two laps within us either way, we just decided that we would stay where we were.”

During the race, Reen was in the right place to be the lucky dog and get his lap back – a new experience for him.

“That was interesting.  I had never done a lucky dog, so we got yelled at a few times.   I passed the pace car and I was not supposed to, so I had to come back.  But it was fun.

“I just have to thank the Lord for giving me an opportunity to be here.  That was his doing, not mine.”

Reen will get another chance to live his dream when the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to Stafford Motor Speedway on May 23^rd.

For more information on Glen Reen, contact Mike Twist at (207) 590-1786 and stay tuned for his new website, coming soon.